Wind Power Density Estimation In The Middle Of Iraq "Karbala site"

This paper presents WAsP simulation (Wind Analysis and Applications Program) to compute wind power density. WAsP is a PC-program for the vertical and horizontal extrapolation of wind climate statistics. It contains several models to describe the wind flow over different terrains and close to sheltering obstacle, has been used to estimate wind power density in Karbala City, also WAsP was a global program used in many countries in the world to product wind Atlases. All statistical operations on data series are obtained from weather station(Novalynx(110-WS-16STR)) that have been installed in the desert of Karbala near the green belt for about two years after the missing data were addressing by Microsoft Excel according to the universal recommendation methods which create the data missing in the accepted accuracy range to be ready to process using WAsP to obtain accurate calculations and result of wind speed, probability distribution of wind speed, power density …etc. Weibull Explorer tool in WAsP program is used to calculate Weibull distribution parameters, scale parameter (A) and shape parameter (K) and to estimate the wind power density (P). Other wind climate or wind Atlas data set such as maximum frequency, speed of maximum frequency, and variance, according to recommended climate model. The results are subsequently employed to estimate the wind power density in the location of weather station. A scenario of chosen Vestas V90, 1800 kW wind turbine of 80 m hub height (IEC IIA) which is considered as moderate speed wind turbine has been achieved to estimate the Annual Energy Production (AEP) of the selected wind turbine.